Babyish Boris Johnson is having a tantrum – if he can’t have his Brexit he’ll try to cause chaos
Boris Johnson: He doesn’t like it when events conspire against him.
Here’s some more evidence that Boris Johnson is in hock to hedge fund bosses who’ve bet on a “no deal” Brexit.
It seems he’s now saying he’ll resign as prime minister – taking his entire cabinet with him – if the EU doesn’t give him the Brexit he wants.
He seems to think that this will make it impossible for Parliament to do anything – but it seems that, like everything else so far, he got that wrong.
Most significantly, it seems BoJob is hoping the UK will be unable to call on the EU for Brexit to be delayed, as required by the so-called “Benn Act” forbidding a “no deal” Brexit.
In fact, it seems Parliament will simply empower Speaker John Bercow to write the letter – the chairman of meetings in the House of Commons acting on the will of that chamber.
And Mr Johnson is facing a rebellion by civil servants, who may find themselves ordered to break the law if he follows this course. They would either resign or demand a public declaration that they were ordered into lawbreaking.
So it seems this plan is unlikely to placate any shadowy backers BoJob may (or may not) have.
As for what the threat to quit government means – it seems he believes Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn would be unable to form a government within the 14 days required by law and a general election would be called, to take place in December.
This implies that the Liberal Democrats, under Tory-supporting Jo Swinson, would not support Mr Corbyn as leader, despite the fact that failure to do so means the UK continues to edge towards a Brexit that she claims to oppose.
Now, why would the leader of the ‘Party of Remain’ want to do that?
Source: Boris Johnson ‘will collapse government’ if EU refuse new deal and force election – Mirror Online
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“Now, why would the leader of the ‘Party of Remain’ want to do that?”
Because she’s an arrogant, egotistic bitch ?
Civil servant would want a statement from Boris saying he “ordered” them to break the law?? I thought that defence had been blown out of the water 57 years ago at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
It’s a good point and I’m glad someone raised it. I understand armed forces personnel can refuse an order in certain circumstances and I wonder if civil servants have been denied that consideration.